Why We Ignore Advice
The other day, I caught myself giving advice again. I do that a lot. Probably too much. While I was talking, something hit me. I have been told the right thing many times in my...
Engineering, Leadership, and Life
I write about software engineering, leadership, and the judgment built through messy systems, team decisions, mistakes, and curiosity beyond work.
The Mirror Is Part of the Machine
The worst telemetry problems I have seen did not start with waste. They started when an incident happened. We could not see enough, and the missing field became the villain of t...
When Too Many Maps Overlap on One Person
You have a proposal. And someone suggested checking with Mike. It does not sound like a problem. It sounds like due diligence, like someone being careful, like a team that knows...
The Work Runs on Different Maps
A project can be obviously important, technically sound, budgeted, and still go nowhere. I don’t mean slowness. I mean the weird kind of stalled where everyone involved can poin...
Breaking Up With WordPress After Two Decades
Around Black Friday last November, I moved my website from SiteGround to Bluehost. This was not some ambitious infrastructure decision. SiteGround wanted roughly five times more...